Hi Everyone,We're proud to announce that our USB-C Car and External battery adapter is NOW available!!Charge your Macbook Pro 15" touchbar or any other larger device with our USB-C adapter.It can plug into any car cigarette plug and any external battery power bank that output's 12-24vdc. Do you have a battery that has a special connector, we'll modify it for you!Get yours here now!!!Stay powered up!

Hi all,Do you remember the last time we wrote about being stopped by Airport Security (TSA)? For those of you who missed it, please check it out here: So I got stopped at #TSA ~ #TravellingTips #TravellingTalesI recently had another opportunity fly and keeping in mind what happened last time, I decided to see what would happen if I took our "Executive" battery along for the ride.On arriving

Pre -Orders openHi Everyone,We are finally in production and super excited!!We also just wanted to let everyone know that pre-orders are now open!Don't pay too much attention to the pictures yet, as the final unit will be glossy white. We'll update the pictures as we get them. Consider this a Pre-announcement only!Herewith then our pre-order link - place your order now:http://mikegyver.com/store/index.php?product/page/2095/USB-C+Car+Adapter+chargerStay

UPDATE 3: USB-C charger - We Are Finally Entering Production!Hi everyone, just wanted to send a small update.We have officially entered into production for the World's First USB-C car and battery charger!We expect it to be available in about a month and we are looking to have pre-orders up shortly.If you have been following our blog, you might have noted that our USB-C charger was originally

New Surface Pro 4 and related power supplies.We have been selling Surface Pro Car accessories since the Surface hit the market. More specifically, our Lind Candy adapters originally could charge the Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4. But with the latest updates from Microsoft, it seems the Lind Candy adapter will no longer be able to power the Surface Pro 4.As indicated by this thread:http://www.surfaceforums.net/threads/new-power-supply-has-65w.17858/it

I am so excited guys! We are almost there!Final prototype in testing.If all final testing goes well, we'll have pre-order up soon, so watch this space!World's only USB-C car adapter and universal battery charger. We recently tested our competitors, and we can safely say that we are going to be able to fully power a full sized Macbook Pro 15" from any External battery (within voltage output range of

Hi Everyone.Thanks for emailing us your questions. We are still working hard on this project. USB-C is turning out to be harder than expected as getting it to work across all devices is not an easy task. One of the reasons why is because USB-C PD is a smart adapter which means there is communication between the charger and the device to adjust the voltage accordingly. Most of today's devices typically

Hi all,Here's another Mikegyver Exclusive...(only found here!) Our HP charge cable helps you connect our batteries to your HP and includes a special sense pin to allow for full speed charging!Check out its specs and more at:http://mct-corp.com/store/index.php?product/page/2076/HP+Charge+Cable Stay powered up! MikeMCT-corp.com

Hi All,Recently a customer came to us about converting their Batterybox. He was concerned that we might not be able to convert the Batterybox due to the software used to control it since removing the center pin on Magsafe end.So this is what you read about Batterybox:BatteryBox powers your laptop rather than charging it, keeping the battery at the same charge percentage - minimizing the number of cycles

Hi!Did you know electricity is just like water? Recently we had to troubleshoot a problem with an adapter that kept blinking on and off when connected to a Surface Pro 4. After extensive troubleshooting I realized that this might make for a great blog. So here we go...A customer approached us with what he thought was a problem with one of our car adapters; no matter what he did, it kept blinking

Available soon!We have had so many requests for our USB-C battery and Car adapters for Macbook Pro's (and other USB-C devices) and so have decided to give you a bit of a teaser with pics of our prototype.Our prototype in productionWhen done, it will be compatible with all our batteries, and will charge from your car. It will support full line Power Delivery devices including the 87W Macbook Pro as

Inverters vs Direct Current.We have actually covered this issue so many times on our website and Q&A pages, that it took me completely by surprise when I realized that I had actually never blogged about it! So you, our loyal blog followers have never learnt why inverters are a complete waste of energy or why you cannot use inverters for your large devices such as Macbook Pro's - well at least not

Hi Everyone,If you follow our blog, you will see that we have blogged about how our batteries can be used for devices that are hard to connect, like Macbooks, Lenovo Yoga, and Microsoft Surface devices. You will also have seen that they can also be used everyday life to make your life easier ~ see how we stopped our dog from digging up our lawn. In this blog, though, I am going to tell you how they

Welcome to 2017! We are happy to have you here with us and hope to keep you entertained for another year with our Blog on how to #StayPoweredUp!So our first topic for the New Year is:How to increase your internet reliability with your wireless router when the powers out?My house has horrible wifi. For some reason, my Apple Airport extreme has a hard time getting wifi signal into the next room

We are so excited about our NEW ITEM in store.YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED!Mikegyver now offers solar panels that will powerup all your devices.Nowadays, if you have the right resources, you can access the internet almost anywhere. Even some places in the middle of nowhere. It is a bit harder, however, to find a power plug in a tree. :-)So, in true Mikegyver Style, we would like to introduce our Mikegyver

Hi All,As you might have heard, Apple is now shipping the New Macbook Pro 13" and Macbook Pro 15", and its a beauty.We wanted you to know that our Car adapter is only rated for the Macbook USB-C 12" and that in traditional Mikegyver style, we are ALREADY working on a solution to assist you with your new Macbook. We hope to announce our solution within 1-2 months.Meanwhile, if you are looking

Enter to win a battery pack for Christmas and...#StayPoweredUp in 2017!Tell us your favourite hashtag from the three below and stand a chance to win one of our "Super Slim" batteries for Christmas.The hashtags are: #StayPoweredUp - it is all about us and our gadgets,#GetOutThere - is about how our gadgets help you stay out there for longer #MikegyverStyle - is about the creativity and

NEW!! NEW!! NEW!!We have just released our Macbook 12" USB-C car adapter and external battery solution just for you.Getting a USB-C car adapter was not easy. In 2015, we had a charging solution for the Macbook 2015, but Apple changed something in how their Macbook 2016 charged, so we had start over again. This time our car charger will charge ALL Macbook 12" laptops (Macbook Pro coming

In my last blog I mentioned that I will be taking two of our own 24Ah batteries with us on a long trip. Airline policy states that batteries must be below 100WH. I originally wanted to bring our “Executive” 34.2Ah battery along but it is easily beyond the TSA standards of 100WH and so I decided to take along two 24ah (88Wh) batteries rather that we like to call...The "Boss"Upon

Great news!!We have lowered our prices for our Apple TV 3rd gen.Apple TV car AdapterIdeal for RV's and custom cars too, this Apple TV Car Adapter is now easy to own.So don't use inverters, use our Apple TV's that run on pure DC power. That means less stress on your car battery and much more movie time!Stay PoweredUp!MikeFor interesting outdoor gadgets, follow The Smart Lad

We seem to get a lot of cycling or mountain biking related queries and so we thought it time to put our most asked questions into a blog. So wether you are just an "out to get fit" cyclist or a professional biker, you might find some insight here.What would be the best battery for me to use for Notebook or Laptop device whilst cycling:Although we don't often get a request to power large devices from

Hello folks,In true "Mikegyver" style, we recently made a video that you can view on YouTube or find on our Facebook or Twitter pages, in which we took common things from around the home and combined them with one of our batteries to make a "scare" box that can be used to scare the %*@# out of your friends this Halloween. Want to find out how to make this nifty "Scare" device?Just

Share your Mikegyver Experience and win!!!As you might now, we are a young, dynamic, family business that make beautifully packaged, top quality, external batteries, chargers and cables. We know our customers love our products and personalised service as they often email us to tell us and it was for this reason we thought it high time that our products speak for themselves as well

Hello,I am sure that you, like me, have seen some tiny external batteries advertising 20,000 mah. Now, if you consider our smallest external battery is around 21000 mah, you’d have to wonder how a smaller sized battery can offer nearly the same mah as the larger batteries and why we don't just make ours smaller...In a word. It can’t.There are a lot of factors that create this illusion

Hi everyone,I am sure you read the post I posted about our new dog that kept digging up our yard, and how I attached a battery to a transmitter that keeps dog's away from that spot?!Well, here's the follow up:I am truly proud to announce that our battery lasted a whole WEEK at a time! However, I was still not happy with having to recharge the battery every week. Sooooo....Spoiler Alert!!!We're testing

Too much cable to untangle?Yip we have a new product in our store.Check out our short Microsoft Surface cables!Just 15" inches long, it is guaranteed not to tie you up in knots!Stay Powered UpMike LeeFor interesting outdoor gadgets, follow The Smart Lad

We have been punting the fact that we sell Genuine Cables for years now, and we do. But we wanted to put some competitor's selling "Genuine" cables to the test to make sure that we are a cut above the rest. So we got our hands an a "Genuine" Surface cable from a seller on ebay. Sure enough when we cut the cable this is what we found:Four individual wires. Unlike the genuine Microsoft adapters.